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"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"
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"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
"Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision."
"The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this."
"My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations."
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
"Now, I don't make decisions as fast as I used to."
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"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
"Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included."
"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."
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"People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."
"Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle."
"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
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